Download FREE Adobe AIR Book

Adobe® AIR™, erstwhile code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. This book gives a general overview of Adobe AIR, shows how to set up your development environment to start building applications, provides an overview of the HTML and JavaScript engines within AIR, and shows how to perform a number of common programming tasks within AIR.

Authored by Mike Chambers, Danny Dura, Kevin Hoyt and published by O’Reilly - Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide - is for HTML and JavaScript developers who wishes to get started with Adobe® AIR™. Before it was named Adobe® AIR™, it was popularly known as Adobe Apollo.

Adobe® AIR™

Introduction to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Getting Started with AIR Development
Working with JavaScript and HTML Within AIR
AIR Mini Cookbook

Command line tools (Appendix A)
AIR JavaScript Aliases (Appendix B)

This book gives a general overview of Adobe AIR, shows how to set up your development environment to start building applications, provides an overview of the HTML and JavaScript engines within AIR, and shows how to perform a number of common programming tasks within AIR. This book can be best used as an introduction to and overview of Adobe® AIR™, as well as a step by step guide to getting started with AIR Application development. The book, including all text and code samples, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Download the book for FREE

Ajaxian has made the book available for FREE Download (PDF).
Access the online version of the book.

REFERENCES

Adobe® AIR™ Showcase Gallery
Adobe® AIR™ Sample Applications
Download the Adobe® AIR™ SDK
Adobe® AIR™ Mailing List

Note: Just in case the above download link goes off or do not work, here is a secondary back-up copy on my server.

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Brajeshwar posted this article on Tue, Jul 31st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
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Digital Music Recording July 31st, 2007 at 3:46 pm 1

AIR looks really cool. Definitely need to give it a shot. I had read about Apollo here and there. Its great news that AIR is ready. Would love to sign up as a beta tester.
Arindam August 1st, 2007 at 2:45 am 2

kewl. didnt know this one was free for download.